‘The Voice’: Kat Robichaud and Austin Jenckes Voted Off

America handed pink slips to Kat Robichaud and Austin Jenckes on “The Voice” Tuesday after the new “instant save” vote came to Caroline Pennell’s rescue.

Voting for the top 8 artists almost eliminated CeeLo’s entire team but as the bottom three stood solemnly on stage, America made an eleventh hour selection on Twitter to save one of them and brought Caroline Pennell back from the brink.

Coach Adam emerged from this week’s voting three-for-three, with Tessanne Chin, James Wolpert and Will Champlin all making it through. Christina scored two-for-two while Blake lost one team member, Austin Jenckes, leaving him with two. CeeLo now has just one contender in the game.

Almost certainly aiding in Caroline’s last-minute rescue was an intriguing performance with Tessanne of Lorde’s “Royals,” just minutes before the instant save was deployed on Twitter.

This week’s vote came after a marathon, three-hour session of “The Voice” on Monday. NBC did some shuffling of its shows this week to accommodate “The Blacklist,” which was still putting the finishing touches on an upcoming two-episode storyline (each episode is finished pretty close to airing). With November sweeps also in action, NBC decided it made sense to give “The Blacklist” the week off. Thus “The Voice” ran a one-hour recap Monday, followed by a two-hour block of new performances.

One interesting factoid: there’s little duplication between Monday and Tuesday night’s shows, with less than half the people who watch on Monday, also tuning in on Tuesday. Which may explain why there isn’t a mass rebellion when “The Voice” turns to recaps.

Back to Tuesday’s show, I have to give it to Christina for a masterful performance with her two remaining team members: Matthew Schuler and Jacquie Lee. Matthew, in particular, looked entirely at home performing alongside Christina.

And thank you producers for taking me out of my misery early on, announcing first up that James Wolpert had made it. He’s weathered some tough song choices and I would’ve hated to see him leave the competition.

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